The perfect gift for nature lovers and bookworms alike, Oaklore unveils how the mighty oak tree has shaped and influenced English literature, culture, and history.

An expert on China's growing digital empire provides an urgent look at the battle to connect and control tomorrow's networks.

This original and deeply provocative book, first published in 1978, was the first to make Palestine the subject of a serious debate – one that remains as critical as ever.

Before she was born, Annie Ernaux's parents had another daughter who died at the age of six from diphtheria. Translated into English for the first time, The Other Girl explores the meaning of this family secret, which Annie only discovered by chance as a child and never discussed with her parents again.

In 1995, before leaving his much-loved home in North Yorkshire to move back to the States for a few years with his family, Bill Bryson insisted on taking one last trip around Britain, a sort of valedictory tour of the green and kindly island that had so long been his home. His aim was to take stock of the nation's public face and private parts (as it were), and to analyse what precisely it was he loved so much about a country that had produced Marmite; a military hero whose dying wish was to ...

A beautiful, collectable gift edition of the masterpiece of Scottish nature writing. Introduced by Robert Macfarlane and with an afterword by Jeanette Winterson

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